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When nominees for Oscars are chosen it is traditional for their agents to put full page ads in the well known film trade magazines like Variety or the Hollywood Reporter.
Noel Gardner
, December 15th, 2020 09:22
Viz is more than just a very funny comic to long time fan Noel Gardner. But the extent to which it s a vehicle for incisive, leftwing satirical commentary, he says in this subscriber only essay, is something that s open to debate.
Noel Gardner, portraits by Fiona Mackechnie/ all comic strips (c) Viz
A grand British institution that both exemplifies and subverts that nation’s rickety image, this story begins with a few years of slow brand-building and wilful daftness preceding untouchable status and a millions-strong fanbase. Then come the water-treading years, that period of essentially trading on past glories even while gamely trying new things, before steadying the ship into a latterday era of reliable peculiarity. All the while slotting high-minded reference points into a package which, despite everything, remains populist in essence.